Mixed laterality since 1968

08 May 2012, 20:35

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#“Rough n Ready Unboxing and Booting of Raspberry Pi”

Sorry, very busy, so zero production values in this video. Three snippets jammed together but I go from closed delivery packet to fully booted and operational Raspberry Pi with browser running in a few minutes.

Shockingly small. You don’t realise just how small until it is in your hand

It just works

The CPU is fine but I think the 256MB RAM is going to be a problem fairly quickly. Most modern Linux apps expect more.Building Fuse from source took a bunch of tries as GCC ran out of memory until I found a low-memory setting

It’s slow but acceptably so

It runs almost cold .Gotta love the ARM architecture.

They should only highlight one Linux distribution on the site and put everyone’s focus on that. Far too early for fragmentation or trying to please everyone.

Should boot into XWindows by default and then show a “Welcome to RPi” screen like Linux Mint.

The efforts on XBMC etc are very exciting

Wireless keyboard and mouse saves you one USB port

8GB Class 6 MicroSD in an adapter worked fine as the boot device

Full-size SD cards for pennies on sites like 7DayShop

It needs HW-accelerated GUI and decent Java support quickly

I’d love to see someone put together RPi in a case with keyboard and mouse as cheaply as possible. In fact they should make it a competition. I have a $6 keyboard coming from HK at the mo.

Lots more stuff I want to try out at the weekend including making a nice case for it. Expect more posts from me in the coming weeks.